EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — Digital Passport Compliance.
How to comply before the February 18, 2027 deadline. AI extracts all 98 Annex XIII fields from your existing documentation and generates your GS1 Digital Link QR code. EU Central Registry submission goes live July 2026 — automatic, no action required.
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At a glance
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 requires a Battery Passport for every EV, LMT, and industrial battery above 2 kWh placed on the EU market from 18 February 2027. The passport holds 98 mandatory Annex XIII fields covering chemistry, carbon footprint, recycled content, supply-chain due diligence, and end-of-life data — accessible via a GS1 Digital Link QR code with tiered access for consumers, authorities, and certified operators.
- Mandatory from 18 February 2027 for EV, LMT, and industrial batteries above 2 kWh.
- 98 Annex XIII data fields — chemistry, carbon footprint, recycled content, supply chain.
- Carbon footprint declaration required from February 2025 for EV batteries.
- GS1 Digital Link QR code is the mandatory data carrier under Article 77.
- Portable batteries and SLI batteries face separate, later passport obligations.
What Regulation 2023/1542 requires
Annex XIII data fields
98-111 mandatory fields covering carbon footprint, recycled content, performance, and supply chain.
GS1 Digital Link QR code
Machine-readable identifier on every battery.
Supply chain due diligence
Full chain of custody from raw materials to finished product.
EU Central Registry
Registration with the central DPP registry from July 2026.
How the AI engine handles battery compliance
Upload your IEC certificates, UN 38.3 test reports, carbon footprint studies, and BOMs. AI extracts every Annex XIII field automatically.
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Your Annex XIII compliance score updates as each field is extracted — carbon footprint, recycled content, performance data, supply chain due diligence. You see every gap before any market surveillance authority does.
Component data from your suppliers enters the passport only after they explicitly approve each data request — giving you a consent-backed audit trail alongside the compliance data.
For your compliance team
First compliant output with existing documentation.
Free plan covers 10 outputs per month.
Full production rollout including supplier data collection.
For certification bodies
Verification built in — not bolted on.
Certification bodies operating on Traceable get a prioritised queue, source-linked evidence records, and an immutable audit trail — all in one place. No exported PDFs, no email threads. Built for your workflow from day one.
Evidence-ready records arrive in sequence. Review what matters first.
Every data point links to its exact source document, page, and table cell.
Every action timestamped. Every decision recorded. Fully auditable.
Cathode active material suppliers build their compliance profile once and share composition data with each connected battery manufacturer on their own terms. When an operator requests data, sharing is instant — relationship-scoped, never exposed beyond what each manufacturer is authorised to request.
Certification bodies log into Traceable to verify your battery compliance records directly. Evidence-linked review, immutable audit trails, prioritised verification queue. No exported PDFs. No back-and-forth emails.
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Free resource
EU Battery Passport Checklist — Annex XIII
Every mandatory field in Annex XIII, organised by data category. Use it in supplier conversations, internal reviews, and audit preparation.
Battery Passport — Common Questions
Portable batteries (below 2 kWh) are in scope of EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 but face a later passport deadline than EV, LMT, and industrial batteries. Article 77 applies to EV, LMT, and industrial batteries from 18 February 2027. Portable battery passport obligations will be set by a later delegated act — the framework regulation applies, but the timeline differs.
Annex XIII is the schedule in EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 that lists every data field a Battery Passport must contain. It covers general information (manufacturer, model, chemistry), carbon footprint, recycled content, performance and durability, hazardous substances, supply-chain due diligence, and end-of-life handling instructions. EV batteries require 98 fields, LMT batteries 111 fields, and industrial batteries 96 fields.
The EU Battery Registry is required by Article 77(4) of Regulation 2023/1542 and is expected to go live in July 2026. Once live, all Battery Passports must be registered with the Commission via the official API. Traceable handles this automatically — the QR code on your product stays the same; the registry connection happens server-side without any action required from you.
Yes. EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 requires a unique battery identifier that conforms to the GS1 Digital Link standard. A GTIN-13 or GTIN-14 is the standard product identifier used. If you do not already have a GS1 company prefix and GTINs, you register through your national GS1 member organisation. Traceable generates the compliant GS1 Digital Link QR code from your GTIN automatically.
A battery carbon footprint declaration is a mandatory document under EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 that states the total lifecycle CO₂-equivalent emissions per kWh of usable energy for a battery model. EV batteries must have a carbon footprint declaration from 18 February 2025. The declaration must follow the methodology in the Commission's implementing act, covering raw material extraction, manufacturing, and transport stages.
Further reading
Regulatory Guide
EU Battery Regulation 2023/1542 — Full Guide
Scope, Annex XIII fields, carbon footprint timeline, and all Article 77 obligations — the primary reference for battery manufacturers.
Regulatory Guide
GS1 Digital Link — QR Code Standard
How the ISO/IEC 18975 standard works, why the EU chose it for DPPs, and how to generate a compliant QR code.
Regulatory Guide
What Is a Digital Product Passport?
The foundational explainer — definition, data tiers, lifecycle scope, and how the passport follows a product from manufacture to recycling.
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